Jan 4, 2010
Peter, a successful upper-middle-class man in the publishing business, was reading on a bench in Central Park in New York City on a sunny summer afternoon. Another man, Jerry, an aimless, rootless outsider who described himself as a “permanent transient,” declared that he had come from the zoo and insisted on talking to Peter. Peter did not want to be bothered. He tried to brush off Jerry and get on with his reading, but Jerry confronted him to examine his life. In the course of their conversation, the audience discovers that Peter was married; had two daughters,...
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